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With a $1.1 billion gross across five films, the Keanu Reeves-led John Wick franchise is the 10th-highest-grossing action franchise ever. The series last appeared on the big screen with the 2025 spin-off movie From the World of John Wick: Ballerina, which started streaming on HBO Max on March 27th. Set between John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum and John Wick: Chapter 4, the movie shifts focus from Reeves’ titular character to Ana de Armas’ Eve Macarro, a deadly assassin trained by the Ruska Roma who hunts those who killed her father. The movie is now available to stream on HBO Max alongside the rest of the John Wick franchise as several new films, including John Wick: Chapter 5 and Donnie Yen’s untitled Caine spinoff, remain on the horizon.
From the World of John Wick: Ballerina Expands the Universe With Intense Gun-Fu Action
On paper, Ballerina didn’t make much of an impact compared to the rest of the movies in the franchise. Its $137 million worldwide gross made it the fourth-highest-grossing film in the five-film John Wick franchise and meant it underperformed relative to its $90 million budget. Meanwhile, Ballerina’s impressive and “Certified Fresh” 75% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes made it the lowest-rated movie in the franchise. Although the movie landed as an underrated film that got some points knocked off for what some viewed as a shallow story and script that lacked the increasingly stylized and over-the-top nature of the other John Wick films, the movie did a pretty great job at expanding the John Wick universe beyond the main Continental hotel structure.
